Author：Wenzhong Fu

Abstract: Indra Sinha's novel Animal's People may be rated as an outstanding text on toxic discourse. Analysis of this novel under the lens of material ecocriticism reveals that during and after Khaufpur chemical disaster, toxic material, possessing agency, constantly traverses, traffics and transits between humans and non-human beings, finally not only constituting the toxic bodies of Khaufpuris represented by Animal, but also constituting the toxic bodies of flora, fauna and other non-human natural beings in Khaufpur. Human beings are just a part of the material community, but if they have no material ethics and ignore the constant material traffic between human and non-human beings, similar ecological disasters may happen again.

Column：British Literature Studies   055-064   Details

Author：Minmin Xie

Abstract: George Santayana was one of the most renowned and reputable intellectuals during the 20th century. He had multiple personas as a philosopher, novelist, and poet, which made his ideological system rich and diverse. Taking Santayana's poems and the novel The Last Puritan as the text, this paper analyzes how Santayana expressed h...

Column：American Literature Studies   065-074   Details

Author：Lin Fu, Shidan Chen

Abstract: In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy reexamines the discourse of American identity in the mid-19th century. Constructed from the perspectives of racism, sexism and civilization, the ideology of Manifest Destiny helped shape American identity in the mid-19th century, provided legitimate discourse for west...

Column：American Literature Studies   075-083   Details

Author：Yujing Liang

Abstract: Focusing on the English pastiches of two Chinese poems by Li Bai and Xidu Heshang, this article explores the significance of imitation in the cross-cultural transmission of literature and the construction of the world literature identity. The textual similarities and differences between the two pastiches—Ezr...

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   001-013   Details

Author：Ran Huang

Abstract: The sociology of literature, a methodology proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, sheds light on the perilous voyage Katherine Mansfield has made in pursuit of artistic autonomy through interaction with literary magazines. Mansfield’s first resisting stance is made by her alliance with social art against bourgeoisie art in New Age. This revolutionary gesture is pushed further by her declaration of double rupture with both bourgeoisie art and social art in fauvist magazine Rhythm. Eventually, she elaborates her modernist aesthetics through her book reviews in Athenaeum. Her pursuit of innovation in literary forms has made a great contribution to the modernist movement.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   014-022   Details

Author：Na Zhao

Abstract: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl focuses on Rosa's witnessing infanticide in the concentration camp and her traumatic postwar life. Rosa has undergone a transformation from a succumber to a speaker and accuser in the heterotopia spaces of the concentration camp, a second-hand shop in New York and hotels in Miami. The characterization of victim's image spreads Holocaust history and crisis awareness, and constructs the national postwar community. Ozick reinforces the awareness of Holocaust history with special spatial art, and forms a historical memory, characterized by the electrified fence as the Holocaust carrier, and the stagnation of time and space. It clarifies the trauma subject’s inner grief and historical responsibility, and presents the historical continuity between spatial memory and the traumatic events of the Holocaust.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   023-030   Details

Author：Tian Liu

Abstract: Helen Benedict and Kirsten Holmstedt's narratives of the Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan wars relate women's war stories in women's voices to reshape the cultural imaginations about the identities of women and soldiers, hence they offer an alternative to or counter-narratives against the dominant gendered war discourse. The portrayals of U.S. female soldiers' perpetrator/victim identity in Benedict's The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq and Sand Queen and Holmstedt's Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq disrupt war narrative traditions, expand the boundaries of feminist discourse, thereby facilitate women's empowerment by unsettling the old gender order to engender a new one.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   031-040   Details

Author：Qi Feng

Abstract: The novel Kamouraska, based on a real murder in Canada was written by Anne Hébert, a famous Canadian female writer. Hébert embellished the murder with romantic love, then a multiple and non-linear narrative, between dream and reality, past and present, showing the heroine Elizabeth’s rebellious love and he...

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   041-050   Details

Author：Yanjiao Zhao

Abstract: The clones in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go have to face the destiny of "untimely death," thus leading to our reflection on the clones' ethical dilemma from the perspective of existentialism. This paper analyzes the clones' ethical dilemma from their crisis in identity, biological power and existential choice, on the basis of Judith Butler's and Giorgio Agamben's philosophical theories. Just like Odradek, the clones are defined as neither "human" nor "animal" but in the mid-state as of existence, becoming "non-human" in Butler's words. Besides, the clones' living "state of exception" makes them Agamben's "Homo Sacer": facing designed life, the clones all choose to be "a livable life," and that pathetic and mournful choice further highlights their existential predicament，implying Ishiguro's humanistic concerns for the marginalized, and meanwhile, calling into question the modern trend of biotechnology when scientific development confronts human ethics.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   051-060   Details

Author：Ruizhen Cai

Abstract: The English translation of Chin-ssu Lu (Reflections on Things at Hands) by Wing-tsit Chan is accompanied by 15 paratexts of Zhu Xi's portrait, translator's note, introduction, prefaces, sources of selection, commentaries, translating certain Chinese philosophical terms, index, bibliography and annotations, presenting a typical characteristic of thick translation. The thick translation by Chan is the product and practical representation of his habitus of language, philosophy, academic research and translation strategy. His philosophical attainment and translation ability are shaped by his talent of language learning and environment as well as the education and training in traditional Confucian classics. And his profound philosophical background, a strong sense of readers and dedication to the spread of Chinese philosophy enables him

Column：Translation Studies   061-071   Details